Project Canopy
 National Forest Foundation - Have you ever spent the whole day inside sitting in school or work feeling exhausted, but when you walk outside into the sun and fresh air, you instantly feel better? There’s an actual scientific term for this feeling! Biophilia is a word for human’s innate draw to the natural environment. However, nature and forests in particular do much more for human health than just improve our mood. Here are five ways that forests can positively impact human health! Read more...
 Trees provide significant benefits to our homes and communities, but they may also become liabilities when they fall or break apart, causing property damage, personal injuries, and power outages. Although some tree failures are unpredictable and cannot be prevented, others can be detected with regular tree inspections and remediated. Learn how to inspect trees by identifying 7 of the most common structural tree defects that often result in failures. Watch webinar here.
 NPR - A huge mechanical claw scoops up several ponderosa pine logs and feeds them into an industrial chipper. Thousands of wood chunks are then blasted into a large shipping container.
These trees being fed into the chipper were recently cut from the nearby Coconino National Forest. A crew of six has been working for days to pack the shipping containers as tightly as possible, stuffing each one with about 40,000 pounds of chipped wood. Then another machine hoists the container onto a nearby railcar. In about two weeks, nearly 60 containers will arrive at a port in South Korea.
"They primarily use these wood chips for production of energy. Moving away from the fossil-based energy operation in South Korea," says Northern Arizona University forestry professor Han-Sup Han. He's hopeful the chip-and-ship project could support global efforts to move toward carbon neutrality and at the same time bypass the main roadblock to large-scale forest restoration in the region known as the "biomass bottleneck." Read more...
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Dec 1 - Hike with the Ranger at Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park
Dec 3 - Webinar - ENERGY STAR and Green Building Rating Systems. 3pm. During this session, attendees will learn how to use EPA tools and resources to help meet requirements for the following green building rating systems:
- U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v4
- Green Globes
- Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) Certified Sustainable Properties (CSP)
- BOMA BEST
Dec 4 - Webinar - Every Drop Counts: Assessing and Evaluating Water Efficiency in Capital Improvement Projects. 1pm. Achieving significant water savings can often require going beyond the low-hanging fruit. Find out how to take the information collected during a facility water assessment to evaluate and prioritize larger-scale projects to maximizing water, energy, and cost savings. Get the information you need to include water efficiency in capital improvements through equipment retrofits and replacements during a renovation or when designing a new facility or space. Register here.
Dec 5 - Webinar - Working Together: Collaborative Stormwater Management in Central Massachusetts 1pm.
Dec 10 & 11 - Pesticide Applicator Training: Outdoor Ornamentals 2019
Dec 18 - Webinar - How To Set Achievable Canopy Goals 1pm.
Jan 10 - Webinar -Soil Assessment for Urban Trees 2pm.
And as always - check the DACF calendar for all our events!
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